It was completely removed.

Yikes, without a word either? I feel like if an editor utilizing 3D features decides to upgrade (for $150, mind you) and then finds out that it's vanished without any communication... then that is a major issue. Never used the feature myself, but I recall it being a selling point at one time and am really hoping the VEGAS team addresses this out of good faith.

I upgraded from 21 to 23 and it seems like they moved the Stereoscopic 3D Mode option? Please don't tell me they've removed it completely?

It was completely removed.

Why though? There was literally no reason for them to remove it

Stereoscopic 3D has largely fallen out of use.

Stereoscopic 3D has largely fallen out of use.

Many of VEGAS Pro's direct competitors in the NLE market still continue to support this feature. Not to mention, why was there no documentation of this major feature removal for the users that rely on it?

.Why though? There was literally no reason for them to remove it

We had a very good reason to remove it...

The Stereoscopic 3D feature was one of the huge bottlenecks in the original video engine and it was not compatible with GPU features. It was decided to not add the complicated 3D pipeline into the new engine for stability and performance reasons. Also the number of users depending on 3D was very small and has been shrinking for several years, thus not justifying significant resources needed to implement 3D in a way that would not significantly reduce the editing experience for most Vegas users.

OMG! I originally bought Vegas for 3D editing, and use it regularly. The 3D adjust fx is the best I've found for photos and video.

This will also render Vegas useless for VR editing as well, I imagine.

I'm so disappointed....

I'm one of the few who use Vegas primarily for the 3D support. Sad day for me. Will probably switch to resolve moving forward.

So that's it? No documentation of the removal anywhere and therefore stereoscopic 3D users that learn it was removed after purchasing are just expected to request a refund?

Knowing that major features are subject to removal without any prior notice does not entice me to upgrade in the future. Who knows what else will suddenly disappear after you purchase an upgrade...

Very sad to hear this. Stereoscopic 3-D is still very key to me and Vegas did it well. Thank goodness Resolve supports it and VR as well (and VR w/o 3-D is a waste). After 12 versions of Vegas I have no choice but to go elsewhere.

So that's it? No documentation of the removal anywhere and therefore stereoscopic 3D users that learn it was removed after purchasing are just expected to request a refund?

 

Knowing that major features are subject to removal without any prior notice does not entice me to upgrade in the future. Who knows what else will suddenly disappear after you purchase an upgrade...

We made some mistakes here in the rollout of this feature removal...yes. S3D was supposed to be moved to the deprecated features tab as far back as VP 20 (as design for the new engine began) but never was done for reasons that were beyond the development team's control. It should also have been documented better than it has been. For that we apologize and I will work with the marketing folks to have some notice of the S3D removal posted somewhere (which I know is too late for some people, but hopefully will inform people who have not purchased VP 23 yet).

In the future, we hope to do a much better job with informing users about the team's overall development plans. We have no intention of deactivating or removing any other features outside of those that are already marked as deprecated features.

How does one get a refund? I'm on the fence whether to use V23 at all...

https://www.magix.com/int/terms-and-conditions/

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§ 3 Consumer cancellation policy regarding distance sales contracts

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@3d87c4

Pls see also https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/refund-for-vegas-pro-22--148683/#ca935205

Agreed, it's best to place it in the Deprecated category, since its still helpful to a handful of users.

I was tempted to move away from VP because of the instability and very buggy render engine freezing and failing to start. I only stayed and kept updating from the Sony days because it was the only one that had a great support for 3D! Now they loose one more customer as 90% of my equipment (and are not cheap) are 3D, majority of thousands of clips yet to be edited are in 3D with surround sound! Since 3D has the great advantage of two full streams and can be rendered as both 2D as well as 3D. 3D will come back as technology progression VR etc Big mistake, just lost another customer! Lucky I spotted this as I was just going to upgrade from VP22 pro!

Anyone knows an alternative with good support for 3D editing in all the outputs? (2D, Top-bottom, left-right, 3D etc.)

well, keep an older VEGAS-version to handle the 3D-stuff. That´s what I do. PLAN B.....

Thanks I have kept vp 16 onwards to 22, I know it may be off topic but is there really impressive new stability and functionality to justify adding vp23 to the list?